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...gunbarrel device, with a bore of not less than two inches or more than ten inches. Purpose: to fire a projectile of fissionable material into a plug of fissionable material at the end of the bore, thus creating a critical mass and atomic blast...
...Boring & Sound. The pale young man with the donnish air was no overnight success. His speeches-meticulously prepared, subtly reasoned, peppered with quiet wit-bored the House. But the ability to bore is rather well regarded in the House of Commons as a sign of soundness. Rab turned from oratory to committee and administrative work to prove his soundness. He was cautious, he was courteous, he never spoke out of turn, he never spoke unless well prepared. His voice was as clear as his logic. "The bullyboys may make the headlines," said a colleague, "but it is to the young...
...Washington Post (circ. 201,645) and Washington Times-Herald (253,532) were about as unlike as two metropolitan dailies could be: the Post is internationalist and often New Dealish, although it backed Eisenhower; the Times-Herald was isolationist and archconservative, bore unhappily with Ike. But last week the two papers came to complete agreement on one of the biggest newspaper deals in U.S. history. For $8,500,000 the Post's Board Chairman Eugene Meyer, 78, bought the ailing (estimated $500,000 loss last year) Times-Herald from its ailing publisher, Colonel Robert R. (Chicago Tribune) McCormick...
Appalling Accusations. The "other side" took the form of eleven interoffice memos, purported to have been written in the last six months by McCarthy or Cohn or the subcommittee's executive director, Francis Carr. Several memos bore the same dates as entries in the Army's report. For example, on January 14, the day the Army said Cohn promised to "wreck the Army" if Schine were sent overseas, a "Roy Cohn" memo to "Senator McCarthy" said: "John Adams has been in the office again. He said that if we keep on with the hearings on the Army...
...years as a Marine aviator, Colonel Frank Schwable (rhymes with able) had demonstrated time and again that he was a brave, cool and efficient fighting man. As he took the stand before a court of inquiry at Arlington, Va. last week, the ribbons on his tunic bore testimony to an honorable career as a regular-as a pilot in Nicaragua, as combat commander of a nightfighter squadron in World War II, as chief of staff of the First Marine Aircraft Wing during the Korean war. But all this simply complicated the dreadful dilemma of the high-ranking officers...